Kenny & Henshaw cover themselves with fake glory

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Oct 21

RE: New COVID modelling suggests restrictions helping Alberta turn corner on pandemic.  CBC report Posted Oct 7, 2021, at 9:00 AM MT

Those who follow these things know that Premier Kenney and Dr. Deena Henshaw are peddling a field of bison pies when they claim that their measures are “helping Alberta turn the corner on the pandemic.”

In the first place, there is no “turning the corner on the pandemic”; there is only passing the crest of the current wave and expecting the tide to ebb for a while.

On September 30^th, I forecasted that the fourth wave in Alberta was cresting, and the data up to October 7^th shows that it has.  Cases are down, and most importantly, ICU occupancy is off its crest.  It only took a glance at the plotted data of waves two and three to see that wave four would crest imminently, as it did.  Provincial restrictions had nothing to do with it; it was just the natural course of a wave revealing itself.

Those in charge are trying to make it look like they have control, when they don’t.  They’re claiming their measures turned the tide, when they didn’t.  Those in charge think that more measures will end the scourge, when they won’t.

Mask mandates didn’t stop waves two and three, and did nothing about four.  Lockdowns stopped only business.  Even high vaccination rates proved unavailing, which is surprising but nevertheless true.

To hell their cursed models.

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Environmentalists talking out of both sides of their mouth, again

Vincent J. Curtis

6 Oct 21

RE: UN report warns of global water crisis amid climate change.  An Associated Press story by Suman Naishadham.  Published in the Hamilton Spectator 6 Oct 21.

Once again, the left hand of the environmental movement doesn’t know what its far left hand is doing.

The UN report warns of climate change induced floods and droughts.  It warns that global water management is fragmented and inadequate.  It warns that as populations grow, the number of people with inadequate access to water will also rise.  It advised on improved water management.  “We need to wake up to the looming water crisis,” said the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Institute.

Let’s talk about California.  This state is one of the most environmentally conscious jurisdictions on the planet.  California is subject to frequent and prolonged periods of drought, followed by rainy spells (i.e. droughts and floods).  To cope with fluctuating water availability, the state designed in the 1960s the California water project scheme, which would dam rivers and develop reservoirs to store water as the population grew.  The last dam was built in the 1970s when California’s population was 20 million.  It is now 40 million and not a new dam has been built to adjust for the growth, which was expected.  This is all before climate change.

No dams have been built to save the snail darter fish, and so as not to disturb the environment generally.  Water shortages are now blamed on climate change.  But the UN now demands better water management!  Old environmentalism meets the new.

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There’s no ‘C’ in AUKUS

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Oct 21

RE: Canada should push reset on its China policy.  Hamilton Spectator editorial of 5 Oct 21.

The editorial was remarkably clear-eyed in its assessment of China, and gave a good outline of the need for Canada to reset its policy towards China.  The wonder is that such an assessment was necessary at all.  Have people forgotten that nearly 70 million Chinese died during the Great Leap Forward (1958-62) and the Cultural Revolution (1966-76)?  Was the Tiananmen Square massacre (1979) not recent enough?  The utter ruthlessness of the Chinese Communist Party ought to come as a surprise to no one.

Among the recommendations for a reset was Canada’s joining of the new Australia – United Kingdom-United States alliance for the Indo-Pacific region.  The problem is that Canada has nothing militarily to bring to the table, and Prime Minister Trudeau is fundamentally an unserious person when it comes to matters of war and peace.

Canada isn’t expected to acquire her first replacement fighter jet until 2025, and nor a new surface combatant ship until 2028 at the earliest.  Mr. Trudeau spends most of his time enlarging on Canada’s systemic racism, and on the atrocities committed against indigenous peoples.  Why would anyone want to defend as atrocious a country as Canada anyway?

If Canada does reorient its defence policy towards the Pacific, it will impact the choice of fighter jet and combatant ship she acquires.  Long range will be key.

This means that Canada should consider the F-15-X fighter instead of the F-35 or F/A-18 Super Hornet, on account of the F-15’s greater range.  With 2900 gallons of on-board fuel the Avro Arrow, suitably engine and with modern avionic would be the equivalent of a Russian MiG-31 but with extraordinary range.  The Type 26 Frigate with a 7,000 nmi range is appropriate for the Pacific, but an Arleigh Burke class missile cruiser could be adapted for range also, has greater speed than then Type 26, and has a better developed array of long range weapons.

The last paragraph is just some idle speculation on things that ought to happen, but won’t.  Too many vested interests against all of them.

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Tit for tat

Vincent J. Curtis

4 Oct 21

RE: Tory MPs should be vaccinated before entering parliament.  Torstar editorial published in the 4 Oct 21 issue of the Hamilton Spectator

The editorial says, “The decision to bar some of those MPs from entering the [House of Commons] should not be taken lightly.”  It then proceeds to treat the matter frivolously.

The editorial shows why lightweight Arts Majors who don’t understand “the science” should be careful about weighing in on important matters, especially when those writers are from the Liberal party’s semi-official organ, the Toronto Star, and are advising on the disposal of Tory MPs.

It has never been explained how the vaccinated are endangered by the presence of healthy, unvaccinated people.  The vaccinated are protected from infection by their vaccination, and healthy people have no virus to pass on.  So, Artsie, explain how the vaccinated are endangered.

The purpose of the vaccine passport isn’t to protect the vaccinated from the unvaccinated, it is to coerce the unvaccinated into getting their shots by denying them a social life until they do.

But since Torstar thinks that ad hoc, unconstitutional, and hitherto unthought of barriers should be placed before an MP who wishes to enter the House, what else can be thought of along those lines?

What touches freedom of the press?  The brain disease known as progressivism oughtn’t be allowed to pass on to the next generation.  Hence, Torstar writers, a progressive breed, ought to be sterilized before being allowed to publish?  It’s good for the nation’s health!

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What about therapeutics?

Vincent J. Curtis

2 Oct 21

The Hamilton Spectator published interviews of four doctors on the front lines of treating COVID patients in Hamilton as part of its panic-porn campaign to scare people into getting vaccinated.  Of the four doctors the Spectator interviewed for the October 2^nd, 2021, issue, only one of them, Dr. Kuldeep Sidhu, said anything about therapeutics for those having COVID.  When asked what sort of treatments are available, Dr. Sidhu answered, “Quite literally at this point it’s still supportive care, supportive ventilation, and oxygenation.”  In short, they’ll hold your hand and give you oxygen to live, if necessary.

I saw nothing about therapeutic drugs, or which there are several, and I wonder if they are being used to treat COVID or not.  For example, Remdesivir was approved for use in Canada in July, 2020.  It is an anti-viral drug that kills COVID viruses.  There are monoclonal anti-bodies such as those from Regeneron and Eli Lilly, which mimic human anti-bodies for COVID.  There is Dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, which helps patients with real breathing problems to breathe.  The oft-derided Ivermectin has a moderate-certainty of reducing the severity of COVID symptoms if used early, according to a paper published in the American Journal of Therapeutics.

President Trump, aged 74, when infected, was treated immediately with an infusion of Rengeneron’s monoclonal antibody followed by five days of Remdesivir, and he recovered fully and quickly.

If these treatments are available and aren’t being used, then we need to ask why.  And if they are being used, then why was no mention made of it?  Is it because the political cause is to encourage vaccination, and if people know therapeutics work they might forego vaccination?  Is that the reason?

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Courts Ignore the Constitution

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Oct 21

RE: Time to pay this overdue debt to indigenous kids.  Hamilton Spectator editorial of 1 Oct 21.

The Federal Court of Canada erred in upholding a decision by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to award $40,000 to some 54,000 people for something or other.

The House of Commons of Canada, with the agreement of the Senate, and the consent of the Governor General, has the sole sovereign right in Canada to decide how taxpayers’ money is spent.  If the House, under the guidance of the Prime Minister, Finance Minister, and cabinet, passes a budget no higher authority exists in Canada to compel expenditures higher than those agreed to.

(Tampering with this feudal right cost King Charles I his head.  By 1720, cabinet control of the House of Commons became the principle, and the right to raise taxes by the House and the control of expenditures by the executive became fused constitutionally.  The Canadian constitution is declared to be “similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom.”)

Hence, when the loftily named Canadian Human Rights Tribunal issues some bloke opinion that the budgets passed by the House  were “willfully” and “recklessly” discriminatory against Indigenous children on reserves because they “failed to provide adequate funding for child and family services,” well that’s just too bad.  Budgeting is a practical matter, money isn’t infinite, and choices have to be made.

Nevertheless, the members of the Tribunal, engaging in moral preening that costs them nothing, awarded a cool $2 billion of Canadian taxpayers’ money to private individuals.  As a creature of the Parliament, the CHRT needs to be modest in awarding taxpayer’s money, and in this case, they’ weren’t.

Since reconciliation is the order of the day, the money in this case could be part of a larger, overall settlement package.

We’ll see if the Supreme Court of Canada understands the constitution better than the Federal Court, or the CHRT, or if they too will engage in a power grab.

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NB: There is no concept of sovereign immunity in Canada as there is in America.  At the same time, there is no Marbury v. Madison in Canadian legal history as there is in American.  The SCOC can’t amend the constitution of Canada as the SCOTUS often does in America.  Awarding $2 billion in this case by SCOC would amount to a one time amendment of the Canadian constitution, and it might establish a principle.

Mohawks declare war on Canada

Vincent J. Curtis

1 Oct 21

RE: Public Notice published on Pg A6 of Sept 30^th issue of the Hamilton Spectator.  This was a half-page “Public Notice.”

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief’s Council, the military government of the Six Nations reserve, celebrated Truth and Reconciliation Day by declaring war on Canada.

In a public notice, the military government of Six Nations declared a piece of property in Townsend, Norfolk County, to be their sovereign territory, it never having been “surrendered, extinguished, or otherwise relinquished” to the Crown.  To date, nothing concerning this declaration has been heard from the elected Six Nations band council.

If the German military declared that the territory known as Alsace-Lorraine was sovereign German land, it would amount to a casus belli with France, particularly if the declaration weren’t immediately denounced by the official German government.

This is how “reconciliation” is handled by the Mohawks, with a declaration of war, however laughable that declaration may be.  It ought to teach everyone who isn’t a fool that the aboriginal community isn’t monolithic, and reconciliation is possible only with those who sincerely desire it, as the Mohawks do not.

In contrast, the Mississaugas of the Credit held a wonderful ceremony at Massey College in Toronto, attended by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Premier Ford, and several Chiefs, all of whom spoke warmly and inclusively and without recrimination.

Reconciliation is a fool’s errand.  It has to be wanted, and offered where wanted.

If the Mohawks want war instead, then they should be given it instead.

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This notice reads as follows:

“1582 Concession 2, Townsend.  The Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chief’s Council (HCCC) hereby gives notice to the public that it holds exclusive use, occupation, and possession to the lands described by the Crown as 1594 Concession 2, Townsend.  The HCCC’s title to these lands has never been surrendered, extinguished, or otherwise relinquished.  Prospective purchasers of subject property are hereby notified that any attempt by Norfolk County to sell the subject property is unlawful and a breach of treaty obligations owed to the Haudenosaunee.  Prospective purchasers are hereby notified that the HCCC will not allow any non-Haudenosaunee use, occupation, or possession of the subject property and will take all necessary steps to protect Haudenosaunee use, occupation, and possession.  The HCCC accepts no liability for loses to prospective purchasers where notice has been provided to Norfolk, the Province of Ontario, and the Government of Canada with respect to our intention to maintain possession and full control of the subject property.”